Re: [OE-core][PATCH] selftest: allow '-R' and '-r' be used together

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

Hi Qi,

On Fri, 2022-11-25 at 05:56 +0000, Chen Qi wrote:
> The AB is actually running 'all' tests.
> 
> The '--skip-tests (-R)' option means 'Run all (unhidden) tests except
> the ones specified.', according to its help message. This is also its
> actual effect for now. You can see there's an implicit 'run all
> tests' meaning in this option.
> The '-T (--exclude-tag)' options means 'Exclude all (unhidden) tests
> that match any of the specified tag(s)', according to its help
> message.
> 
> So the AB's oe-selftest command means: execute all tests except the
> ones tagged with 'machine' and 'toolchain-user', and also skip 
> 'distrodata.Distrodata.test_checkpkg
> buildoptions.SourceMirroring.test_yocto_source_mirror reproducible'.

You're right, a different build has -t machine and I'm confusing the
two, sorry.

I don't really like making changes which require lockstep changes to
the autobuilder configuration but I can see why we could do with doing
so here.

I was thinking there should be symettry between -r and -R like there is
with -T and -t but that also probably doesn't make sense when you think
about it more.

Alex: We'll probably have to work out how to make this change...

Cheers,

Richard